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Nino Batsiashvili

Country Georgia
Born 1 January 1987
Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Title International Master
Woman Grandmaster
Peak rating 2509 (November 2015)

Nino Batsiashvili (Georgian: ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987 in Batumi) is a Georgian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

In 2012 she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open. In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska.

In 2015 she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship and the silver medal in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship.

She was a member of the Georgian team that won the gold medal in the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2015, held in Chengdu, China. Batsiashvili also won the bronze medal on board four.

In December 2015 she played a draw against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening match of Qatar Masters Open

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